Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-15
THE REPUBLICAN FRAUDS.
PaOsBOUflOs 70 ls AISS fas OHSIOsEs
OF rWO sLsOsSOS sUAsD:.
fhs Rssurus From s,,th ward aud lndlanto~ .
Dssericss Bring About Cslmins' suits Assisst
Those VINO Conducted the election In
Msy-o,her Complaints Tsihed ot.

The much. lked- of and long. iooked.for
suits against the election officers, who II is
alleged made fraudulent returns at the late
primary, have been brought. Late on Tues
day afternoon John II. Laudis OF the Anti
Corruption society, went before Justice
Daniel Lintner, Of Millersville, and made
complaints against the election boards of the
Sixth ward, city, aud ludiantown. Those
prosecuted are: Ephraim II, Shauh, J. ".
Brown, Walter Il. Samson, D. Edward
Bltner and Frank Calder. OF the sixth ward,
aud Abraham Fry, Samuel Henry TilmAn,
4, r. kaufman and Isaac Kaufman, OF
lndiantown.
The complaints charge that the defendants
did, ON May 2lst, conspire to commit fraud
and to do other dishonest, unlawful and
malicious acts while in the discharge Of their
duties as election officers, and further that
the said election officers did on the sd Of
May, commit wilful fraud by making q
false return to the board Of return judges OF
the Republican primary elections, contrary
TO the act OF assembly in such cases M ade and
provided.
TIE specific acts alleged against the sixth
ward board are that the return was frsudu.
lent at least 50 far As the vote for prothouo-
tary and prison.keeper. The returns gave
ward made sfii isvits that they cast their bal
lots for Mentzsr, and for prison.ke, y er
Smith was credited with GO votes, while is
citizens made stiidavits that they supported
him. The ward WAS not counted as to prison.
keeper aud that changed the result and
Smiths name Is now on the ticket for that
office in place of Shirk who WAS nominated
on the face of the returns
All the evidence has no: yet bssn collected
as to iudiantown; but the prosecution claim
they will be able to show at the proper time
that the candidates that recsived the honest
vote of the district were not credited with
it
II. Clay Brubaker has been retained "a
special counsel by the Anti.Corruption So
ciety and there may be others retained be
fore the cases are tried. The prosecutions
were unexpected to some of the parties com
planned Of They believed that the talk OF
the Anti'Corruptiou society was all for etiec.
and that no suits would be brought.
The complaints are drawn under the act Of
assembly OF lssl, Furnishing fraud at primary
elections, and also under the common law as
TO conspiracy. The act of lSsl sets forth tn at
II sny judge, Inspector, clerk or other ofti.
Ger of primary election shall be guilty of
any witul fraud, in the discharge of his
duty by destroying or defacipg ballots,
adding ballots to the poll by false counting,
making false returns shall be guilty OF q
misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be
sentenced to pay a Ii ne OF $500, or undergo an
Imprisonment in the county Jail for one year,
or both, or either, in the discretion OF the
court.
The warrants for the Sixth ward officers
were placed in the hands OF Officers Cramer
and Reilly for execution. Those against the
ludiantown district election board will be
served late this afternoon by Constable Dern,
OF Manor township
1t looks as If there would be Investigation n
a. to some other election districts from which
tue returns were a triils suspicious This
investigation Will not be made by the Anti
Corrup ption society, but by the friends of the
men already prosecuted. The chisct is to
also bring some OF the other faction into
court for otfenses similar to those with " which
they are charged Whether sufficient fraud
will be discovered to warrant suits q few
days time will determine. If there should {
prosecutions il will make the next quarter
sessions court lively, and sufficient may be
developed to implicste some of the candi.
dates on the ticket and prevent their as
suming the duties OF the offices for which
they s.rug. led so hard to get.
The Sixth ward men had not given bail
when we went to press. They are all ready
to enter the required amount OF bsiI-Sl, 600
each, and will do so uring the day. twill
probably be determ ined this evening by
their counsel whether or not there will be q
hearing.